Why should water be excluded from a Grignard reaction?  Since this is the case, why does just addition of a cotton ball work for our reaction setup

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Chapter39: The Wittig And Wittig-horner Reactions
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  1. Why should water be excluded from a Grignard reaction?  Since this is the case, why does just addition of a cotton ball work for our reaction setup?
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